iain wall

       
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       Iain Wall is an interdisciplinary artist from New York who works predominantly in drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and prose. Through these media, they ponder identity, self-construction, and an evolving “emotional-cartography” in relation to the frame: a flux space that interplays the structure and motifs of their multi-apertured images. Cobblestone, ironwork, and medieval architecture–aged traces of labor and presence – are amalgamated into drawn sculptures, ultimately becoming panels for further narrative exploration. Between interior and exterior, ornamentally-seen and graphically-staring back, their work seeks to question the nature of presentation, what it means to “queer the outline”, and the transformative power of objecthood—how physical and pictoral weight may become symbolic vessels or monuments to life in an an age grappling with a pandemic and the legacy of the HIV epidemic. Love and loss, intimacy and independence, and grit and glamour are a few of the narrative binaries they grapple with as they create and push forward a queer life force.
   
    Their work has been included in “Memories and How We Hold Them” as well as “Black: Color/Context/Meaning” at the RISD Museum’s Gelman Gallery (Providence, RI) and “Lost & Found” at the Dye House (Providence, RI). Iain graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (Class of ‘21) with a BFA in Printmaking, Concentrating in Theory and History of Art & Design.